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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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New York City
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I believe that we are stewards of a time that is upon us - but often we need the encouragement of each other to be able to wake up to this extraordinary time and possibility.
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Around my eighth or ninth year I became interested in the world's religions. I was mathematically retarded but theologically precocious. I began to correspond with seikhs in India. After about the third letter they would ask about job opportunities in America.
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Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.
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I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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We live in a description of reality.
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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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I am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these were the times, we were the people, this was the most critical time in human history. Other people thought their times were the pinnacle and this is it. This is where we really, together, make a decision of whether to evolve or perish.
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We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.
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The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.
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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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If you travel as much as I do - 165,000 miles last year - you exist nowhere. You're always between heaven and earth, you're always arriving in a new place, you're always starting from the beginning - talk about origins - and you don't know quite what's going to unfold. You live in the unexpected and the inexplicable all the time.
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Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.
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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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Love to me is - the final lines in Dante's Paradiso, when he says, The love that moves the Sun and all the stars - it's what draws us together, it's why we have leaky margins with each other. It is that sumptuous, sensuous, sensitive quickening that happens when we really know ourselves as love and see ourselves as loving.
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Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.
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Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.
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